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Regional Development - Past, Present and Future in Romania 27
- managerial competencies - it is important to be developed in all sectors, as well as
basic skills for better work organization and productivity growth, for understanding
decision-making and accountability;
- linguistic and multicultural competencies - knowledge of several languages
facilitate communication and dissemination of best practices and exchange of
experience on problem solving, while helping to increase information capacity.
Moreover, regional policy can be successful by implementing isolated from
other policies. In this sense, knowledge of relevant national policies and community,
along with their integration into a coherent and well-defined strategic concept, which
can make the best potential development value of a hard or a region or zone is
essential.
Strengthening capacity for cooperation and effective absorption of funds by all
available means: such as exchanges of good practice, joint actions, exchange of new
technologies, developing partnerships, creating thematic networks, etc.. Leads to
effective and efficient implementation of cooperation programs in place and also will
create prerequisites to develop new partnerships of regional cooperation, including
distant countries outside the Union and the United States, China or Russia.
Management of the area at MRDH level. At the level of the Ministry of
Development, Public Works and Housing, the attributions regarding spatial planning,
urban planning and housing policies are assigned to the General Department for
Territorial Development. Thus, it provides a unitary legislative and regulatory
framework in the area of territorial development, supports the elaboration, adoption
and implementation of Romania’s Strategic Concept of Spatial Development – CSDSR
2007-2025, elaborates spatial planning documentations, supports the elaboration of
urban planning documentations, creates the information system specific to urban real
estate and urban databanks.
According to the MRDH organizational chart, the General Department for
Territorial Development is structured in three departments, as follows:
‣ Department for Spatial planning – organized in two services: a) Service for
territorial planning, b) Service for European inter-regional territorial cooperation,
‣ Department for urban planning and local development – constituted of: a) Service
for urban planning, b) Service for local development, c) Service for information
system specific to urban real estate area and urban databanks, d) The secretariat,
organized at compartment level, for the enforcement of GD 834/1991 regarding
the establishment and assessment of lands owned by commercial companies with
state capital, with further amendments and completions. e) Service – Secretariat
for the declaration of public utility with a view of carrying out expropriation
‣ Department for housing policy – made up of: a) The secretariat of the National
Centre for Human Settlements (CNAU – Habitat) b) Service for legislation and
regulations.
For the management of this area, a series of specific laws specific to spatial
planning and urban planning have been adopted, some under promotion and
modification, while other normative acts have incidence on the activity and constitute
connected legislation, of help in fulfilling attributions. In the area of spatial
development, Romania is the signatory of strategic documents that set up objectives